My brief history

My brief history

by Hawking, Stephen

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Hawking recounts his improbable journey from postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. A candid account which introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology. Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS, and explains how the prospect …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :My brief history / Stephen Hawking.

Summary

Hawking recounts his improbable journey from postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. A candid account which introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology. Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS, and explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013
  • Edition:Frist edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bantam Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

  • Description:127 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780345535283, 0345535286, 0345539133, 9780345539137
  • oclc:ocn853113925
  • LC Classification:QC16.H33
  • Dewey Decimal:530.092

Table of Contents

Childhood -- St. Albans -- Oxford -- Cambridge -- Gravitational waves -- The big bang -- Black holes -- Caltech -- Marriage -- A brief history of time -- Time travel -- Imaginary time -- No boundaries.

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